Stephen

Philip Van Cortlandt was a Loyalist officer appointed Major of the 3rd New Jersey Volunteers, December 11, 1776, and acting Brigade- Major in 1777.

See page 35 "The New Jersey Volunteers" (loyalists) in the Revolutionary War

https://books.google.ca/books?id=v5k_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35&dq=

See pages 355-356 The Historical Magazine

https://books.google.ca/books?id=OXwFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA356&dq=

See pages 244-245 A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain Volume 4

https://books.google.ca/books?id=6AtBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA245&dq=

See the article on Catharine Van Cortlandt wife of Philip.

http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Trails/2010/Loyalist-Trails-2010.php?issue=201017

Appointed a Barrack Master London Gazette 6-9 August 1803

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/15608/page/985

Philip Van Cortlandt is shown as Major P. Van Courtland Barrack Master in Hailsham in the 1814 Army List

Hailsham Barracks was ordered demolished in 1814.

See page 285 New Monthly Magazine Volume 2.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=b_YRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA285&dq=

Good hunting

Ron